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i @uitrit tstesetent @frn DEXTER n WINGATE, or` NATIGK, ASSIGNOR To NEEDHAM eMinnnfr'r, 0F

SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS.

Letters Patent No. 7 9,713, dated July 7,1868.4

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TO ALL WHM I'I MAY GONCERN:

Be it known that I, 'DEXTER B. WINGATE, of Natick, in the county of Middlesex, and State of Massachusetts, have invented e new und useful Improvement in Printing Uneven Surfaces; and I do hereby declare that.

the following is a full, clear, and exact description ofthe seme, in connection'witli the drawings forming a. part of this specification. 4 v

Thenatuie of my invention is to print upon unyielding irregular surfaces; and consists in an arrangement by which a. movable type-block, made of firm elastic meteriaLsimilnr to vulcanized rubber in its mechanical properties, is combined 'with suitable mechanical devices.

Toenable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, Iwill proceed-to describe its `construction and operation. t

In the drawings- Figure I represents n top view.

v Figure 2 represents a. vertical section throught'he line al) ot ig..1.

The type-block D is made from n composition of lue and molasses," imilar to that used for printers inkiugrollers. Ordinary metallic type being set up to form the text required, a plaster east is taken from this, and into this, us a mould, the composition is poured, being iirst melted for that purpose. This lforms the 'elastic type-block, and'is properly mounted on the movable support C, which is 'raised by'the lever L, for the purpose of inking the type without soiling the ways H I-I. The ways H H are adjusted on zi. line even with the top-.oi` the type, and are held in any set position bythe tightening-'serewsK K.

In printingtlabels on bottles, thegauge E being adjusted at the proper `distance from the types-block D,

which gives the required distance of the label from tlie bottomof the bottle, theflever L is first raised, and the inkapplied tothe type-block with n common inliing-roller. It is then lowered onto the surface of the frame X, which supports it firmly, and, the ways H being adjusted to the level ofthe type-block D, the bottom of the bottle is placed against the adjustable gauge E, and rolled over the surface ofthe type-block D, which yields .to the inequalities of the glass, giving a clear and exact impression of the ty'pc.

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In printing labels, designs of' any required style mny be east in thc'same way, and, by the us'offvarnish Lor sizing, and bronze-powders of various colors, a very elegant and desirablelobel is produced, quickdy, and at ,a chenprate, and the label is not linbleto be separated from the bottle, as in the ordinary way ofattaeliing it.

Having thus stated the nature ot' my invention, what I claim therein asnewfaud desire to secure by Letters p D. B. WINGATE.

Witnesses:

JOSEPH Snom', N. C. MILLE'rr. 

